Logging-car.



B. MAGOR.

LOGGING CAR.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY a, 1911. Rmmwnn MAE. 25, 1914.

1,103,975. Patented July 21, 1914.

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BASIL MAGO'B.,

0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 'IO MAGOB. CAR- COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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j Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented July 2 1, 1914.

Application filed May 3, 1911, Serial No..624,839. Renewed March 25,1914. Serial No. 827,248.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BAsiL lVlAGoR, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan of the city of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Logging-Cars, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. h

The object of the invention is to simplify and improve the. construction of the logsupporting bunks and their associated parts, in logging cars or trucks. n j

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is aplan view of a portion of a truck in which the improvements are einbodied, considerable of the detail being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2` is a side view, Fig. 3 an end view, partlyl broken out for purpose of clearer illustration; and Fig. el: is a cross sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3, the stake-controlling chains being omitted for the sake'of clearer illustration. t

The truck is denoted generally by a and the log-supporting bunk, which extends transversely across the same, by b.\ The upper face of the bunk upon which the logs rest will be seen to consist of a channel-plate 1 preferably inverted and supported directly upon the top of the center sill or girder c which connects two trucks to form a car (the complementary truck being omitted from the drawing) and angles b2 may be provided, as on each side of the center of the channel to secure it to the sill c. This construction furnishes a the logs to rest upon, and covers up the stake controlling chains t. The lower face of the bunk is also preferably a channel plate, and the two channel plates, thus constituting the top and bottom members or faces of the bunk, are united around, the center sill by means of side pieces such as plates or braces, as shown particularly in Fig. 3. These plates or braces may be conveniently secured to the flanges of the channels, and constitute the sides of the bunk. The' angle plates b2 obviously serve to bind the bunk more firmly to the center sill and to prevent the same from twisting upon the center sill. It will thus -be seen that the bunk is built around and secured to the center sill without the necessity of cutting through or recessing broad surface for r and between the latter and the center sill c to opposite sides of the bunk where they project through openings b3 in the sides of the bunk. Near this opening and upon the same side of the bunk, fastening means o1 are provided to secure the end ofthe chain and thus hold the stake at the opposite end o f the bunk in its elevated or normal position for retaining the logs. It will be seen that by inverting the channel-plate ,b1 and resting its flanges down upon the girder c, a very convenient space is provided for the cha-ins which are thus protected from contact with the logs (which they might foul if arranged exposed along the top or sides of the bunk) as well.. as from being interfered with by anything else. Moreover, as was said above, the inverting of the channelplate provides a broad-bearing face for the logs. Upon such face there may be con veniently provided, if desired, a strip b4 extending from end t0 end of the bunk, to prevent the logs from slipping lengthwise.

The fastening means o1 for the end of each of the chains t consists preferably of a simple notched piece, such as an angle plate one face of which is secured to the side of the bunk and the other face having a V- shaped or otherwise suitably formed notch in which the chain may be engaged and held by the sides of the notch by simply laying `it therein. Thus, when one of the stakes is to be drawn up to its elevated position before the loading on of the logs commences, the end of corresponding chain is drawn up tightly and laid into the corresponding notch the sides of which act like jaws to hold the chain tightly against slipping. lVheii the logs are to be dumped, the chain or chains are simply lifted from their notches and thereby released.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a logging car or truck, the combina-4 tion with the stakes to retain the logs, and' ion ' a bottom member extending transversely below the center sill, means to unite said to andyrbottom members, the said chains exten -ingfrorny side to 'side within the hollow of the top member, and means to keep the bunk ifrom twisting upon the center sill. .A 2. In a logging car or truck, the combination with lthe stakes to retain the logs, and

the stake-controlling chains, of a center sill,

and abunk consisting of a straight inverted `channelplate laid transversely above the ,upper surface of the center sill, a channel plate extending transversely below and bent around the under surfaceof the center sill, the said chains extending from side to side within the channel of the said inverted plate, and angle plates located at the junction of the bunk and center sill to prevent the bunk from twisting upon the center sill.

3. In a logging car or truck, the combination with the stakes to retain the logs, and lthe stake-controlling chains, of a center sill, and a bunk consisting of a hollow top mem-- ber adapted to form a support for the logs and laid transversely above the center sill, a bottom member extending transversely below the center sill plates at each end ofthe bunk to unite the top and bottom memmeans located at thel junction of the bunk and the center sill to keep the bunk from twisting upon the center sill.

4. The combination to form a logging car, of a frame including a center sill, a pair of bunks each having a top member and a bottom member laid respectively across the top and bottom of the center sill, the top`members being of substantial depth to form a support for the logs substantially above vthe plane of the frame, means to unite the top and bottom members of the bunk on each side of the center sill, means at each end of each bunk to retain the logs, and means to keep the bunks from twisting upon the center sill; thus providing upon anduniting to the frame two transverse members adapted to support logs without unduly exposing the frame to the latter and at the same time firmly securing' the transverse members to the frame. f'

This specification `signed and witnessed' this 27th day of April, A. D., 1911. A

copie! of this patent may be obtained for nve cents each, by addressing the fsCommissione-r or Patents,

. Washington, ID. G. 

